Bread Bakers Begins Strike Over Ban On Motorcycle In Zamfara

• The Association refuted the claim that the motorcycle riders carrying loaves of bread were supplying bread to bandits in the forests.
• Mallam Habibu, the State Financial Secretary of the Association, stated that the union would not resume bread production until it resolved a dispute with the State Government. 

The Master Bakers Association’s (MBA), Zamfara State chapter has directed its members to cease bread manufacture until it reaches a resolution with the State Government on the prohibition on motorbikes transporting bread.

WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the he Association denied that the riders of motorcycles carrying loaves of bread were feeding robbers in the woodlands with bread.

According to the State Government, motorcycles carrying bread loaves are prohibited from doing so because the riders are providing the bread to bandits who are active within the State.

The government forbade the selling of gasoline in cans as well, citing the fact that bread and fuel cans were providing terrorists with motivation to carry out acts of terror against locals.

Addressing newsmen in Gusau, the State Financial Secretary of the Association, Mallam Habibu explained that the union would not resume production of bread until it settled the matter with the State Government.

“We have been holding a series of meetings with the State Government to resolve the issue. I am very much sure that very soon the issue will be resolved,” he added.